2026-05-20 New filtered RSS feeds on dsebastien.net

For a long time my site effectively had a single RSS feed: the one at /rss/. It worked, but it forced an all-or-nothing choice: subscribe to everything I publish, or nothing.

Canonical version: 2026-05-20 New filtered RSS feeds on dsebastien.net.

For a long time my site effectively had a single RSS feed: the one at /rss/. It worked, but it forced an all-or-nothing choice: subscribe to everything I publish, or nothing.

That's now fixed. dsebastien.net has a proper set of RSS feeds. Follow exactly the slice of my writing you care about. No account, no algorithm, no email required.

Pick the feed you want

There's a new directory page that lists every feed: dsebastien.net/feeds. The highlights:

  • Everything/rss/ — every post I publish
  • Articles/blog/rss/ — long-form articles only
  • Newsletter archive/newsletter/rss/ — past newsletter editions
  • News/news/rss/ — short notes and quick updates
  • Knowledge Management & Note-taking/feeds/pkm/rss/ — PKM, note-taking, Obsidian, Zettelkasten and journaling, combined into one feed
  • Artificial Intelligence/feeds/ai/rss/ — using AI for knowledge work: LLMs, AI agents and AI-powered workflows
  • Productivity & Personal Organization/feeds/productivity/rss/
  • Software Development/feeds/dev/rss/ — just the dev content, without the knowledge-management material
  • Best Of/feeds/best/rss/ — a low-volume feed of my featured posts

On top of that, every tag has its own feed: append rss/ to any tag URL, for example /tag/obsidian/rss/.

Why I bothered

RSS is the calm way to follow a site: chronological, complete, and entirely under your control. But a single firehose feed isn't ideal. Someone who follows me for Obsidian tips shouldn't have to wade through old front-end development posts, and vice versa. Topic feeds let each reader self-select.

How it works

The topic feeds are Ghost channels: routes with a filter, defined in routes.yaml. Each channel is both a browsable page and an RSS feed. No hand-written feed template to maintain. I wrote up the full process in my notes: Creating custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost.

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About Sébastien

I'm Sébastien Dubois, and I'm on a mission to help knowledge workers escape information overload. After 20+ years in IT and seeing too many brilliant minds drowning in digital chaos, I've decided to help people build systems that actually work. Through the Knowii Community, my courses, products & services and my Website/Newsletter, I share practical and battle-tested systems.

I write about Knowledge Work, Personal Knowledge Management, Note-taking, Lifelong Learning, Personal Organization, Productivity, and more. I also craft lovely digital products and tools.

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